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ya know, i've come to wonder why asian parents are generally viewed as being harsher on their children than american parents are. why asian parents expect so much of their children. maybe its because of their old confucianist ideals? maybe the whole family represents society thing makes them strive for excellence in the family which would parallel into society or something? i dunno, whatever. but that would only apply to chinese parents. maybe it is only the chinese that are so harsh on their children? (not that i would know..) i guess confucianist principles could have spread to other asian countries? then again, the whole "asian parent" stereotype could just be a myth, maybe it is actually asian children who push themselves to excellence? ya know maybe its just the americans who dont work hard enough. from what i hear, european kids have it pretty difficult, too.
frakin americans and their frakin education system. everything is fraekin based on GRADES. (well i guess that goes for the whole world, doesnt it?) every single little thing counts towards college. and then you have to go through an arduous application process, write essays: "what kind of person are you?" "why did you pick our college?" "hey, i get paid to read your essays, so why dont you write another one?" blah blalh b ahl. in asia and europe, all you have to do to apply to a college is take a test. ONE TEST. thats it. and youre done. i dont know about you, but i would much rather take one test and get it over with, than having to go through all of the crap that is american. whats worse is not only do they make you go through all the crap, but they even find a way to make money from it, frekin capitalistic society. the world makes me sick.
i bet my rambings sound pretty stupid, better stop complaining before the kgb (cough) i mean, the patriot act implementors come and silence me for good. this post looks kinda long, props to all who get this far. Now watch, im gonna feel pretty stupid when someone posts a one line comeback that completely puts my whole entry to shame. i hate it when that happens.
frakin americans and their frakin education system. everything is fraekin based on GRADES. (well i guess that goes for the whole world, doesnt it?) every single little thing counts towards college. and then you have to go through an arduous application process, write essays: "what kind of person are you?" "why did you pick our college?" "hey, i get paid to read your essays, so why dont you write another one?" blah blalh b ahl. in asia and europe, all you have to do to apply to a college is take a test. ONE TEST. thats it. and youre done. i dont know about you, but i would much rather take one test and get it over with, than having to go through all of the crap that is american. whats worse is not only do they make you go through all the crap, but they even find a way to make money from it, frekin capitalistic society. the world makes me sick.
i bet my rambings sound pretty stupid, better stop complaining before the kgb (cough) i mean, the patriot act implementors come and silence me for good. this post looks kinda long, props to all who get this far. Now watch, im gonna feel pretty stupid when someone posts a one line comeback that completely puts my whole entry to shame. i hate it when that happens.
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well it looks like i'm the only one who comments here... and i'm not very good at the one-liners. so oh well.
about your comments on asian/european parents. i've had this theory for a while, it goes something like this: first, the only people who can come over to america from europe or asia are generally those who are well off enough to afford it. second of all, they have to have the drive to leave their home country to come here, so they're not lazy. third, when they do get here, they have to be good enough to make a living in a place where they don't speak the language or know the customs. they have to deal with the high cost of living in the u.s. and the discrimination they face as immigrants. only after they've crossed these barriers can they start a family.
it's like an immigrant natural selection. the only ones who can start a family are the ones who were smart and disciplined enough to make it in the first place. (the exception, unfortunately, being illegal immigrants crossing the southern border.) the reason we don't see first-gen. asian immigrants around that are lazy idiots is because those people weren't able to leave asia in the first place, or weren't able to survive in a foreign environment.
i guess it can be summed up like this: the only immigrants that can come across the ocean and start a family are the kind of people who would try to discipline their children and push them to succeed.
oh, and nobody said you have to write an essay. or take a test even. apply to DCC. no test, no essay. the colleges you're thinking of are private institutions, they can do whatever they want. private institutions have a right to make money.
does that count as a one line comeback?
and is my comment longer than your post?
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Alfred, at 11:16 PM
about grades. i'm going to ahve to agree with you on this one (oh no). the system is completely backwards. grades were implemented as a measurement of what has been absorbed by a student in the learning process.
in the beginning, you went school because you wanted to learn. but then, how can you know if or what you have learned? why, test yourself on the material. it's supposed to reflect what you have learned and acquired.
somewhere along the way (i.e. mandatory school attendance) things got completely turned around. students began to try to learn the material for the sole reason of doing well on the tests that were meant to see what had been learned. IT'S A HUMONGOUS CIRCLE.
now, that's okay in my opinion. either way you're still learning the material. the problem arises when people are jamming things into their short-term memories so they can do well on a test. this is totally wrong. this doesn't show what you have learned at all, it shows the power of your short-term memory. take matt zenz, for example. he'll cram insanely for the physics regents tomorrow. he'll get 100 or something. then he'll forget it all.
instead of aiding the educational process as they were originally intended, tests have actually caused learning to be stunted.
the biggest problem is that this system can't be fought. if you don't do well on tests, people will assume you are stupid, even though there is a very flaky connection between tests and true intelligence. even if you have learned the material very well, it is difficult to do well on today's tests without reviewing and studying, simply because the tests have been unknowingly engineered to test the short-term memory. you are forced to do last-minute studying that doesn't contribute to your lasting knowledge.
i'm getting less and less coherent. physics regents tomorrow. i should be studying? nah.
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Alfred, at 11:40 PM
damn, those are pretty long. i wonder if you're actually going to read them.
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Alfred, at 11:41 PM
oh and there shouldn't be any such thing as TEST-TAKING STRATEGIES or SKILLS. this is wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong but i've already crapped out more than 600 words in these comments so i'll stop.
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Alfred, at 11:49 PM
XIANG I LOVE YOU :D screw confucianist ideals. more like communistic views ><
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Anonymous, at 8:01 AM
"..have a right to make money.." <--thereinlies (one word?) the problem in itself. we should not be "making money"
u stupid capitalist :)
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shang, at 3:55 PM
dcc? no thanks..
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shang, at 3:59 PM
...you're not allowed to one-line comeback my one-line comeback!
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Alfred, at 5:33 PM
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